Alibaba's RISC-V chip XuanTie C950 runs Qwen-3.8 27B at 30 tps

Alibaba's XuanTie C950, a 64-core RISC-V processor with embedded matrix/vector engines, runs Qwen-3.8 27B natively at 30 tokens per second without GPUs. The chip, unveiled March 2026, uses an open-source ISA to bypass licensing fees.